I think it is a warning of a potential for insurgency rather than a definite prediction. The potential threat posed by a "fifth column" waiting direction from outside is scary. The correct combination of circumstances could indeed lead to mayhem.

This is an illustration of the disgraceful situation the nation is in, with open borders and a government more interested in lying about the shambles that is our immigration system, rather than doing anything about it.

When not at work I shall wear my tin Air Raid Warden's hat and prepare steaming mugs of tea and piles of bacon sandwiches for the nice young squaddies at the CP at the end of my road.

A well-connected source said there were more than 100,000 people in Britain from "completely militarised" regions, including Somalia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa, and Afghanistan and territories bordering the country. "Every one of them knows how to use an AK-47," said the source. "About 10 per cent can strip and reassemble such a weapon blindfolded, and probably a similar proportion have some knowledge of how to use military explosives. That adds up to tens of thousands of men."

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With suitable re-education by a crack Home Office department these men could be urgently re-brigaded into the TA and sent to Eye-Wrack.

Against this background, as many as 400 more armed police may be recruited in London.

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I feel much better; four hundred more of us versus ten thousand? I was recently asked to re-authorise as an AFO, too.

"Ahh but.." Says the nice govement spinning top ".. all these scary naughty types couldn't possibly get hold of a nasty weapon like an AK47 because of our brilliant stance against all legal gun ownership.

And in other news IRA cells are disposing of thousands of firearms every week."

"About 10 per cent can strip and reassemble such a weapon blindfolded, and probably a similar proportion have some knowledge of how to use military explosives. That adds up to tens of thousands of men."

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Oh I'm bloody terrified. Don't these 10's of thousands have to get their hands on weapons and military explosives as well? Scary scary scary , I shall be hiding under my bed. Absolute scaremongering bolloox. The London Bombers used homebrew. To arm cells even well below this scale, would be an immense undertaking, which would require a foreign government to fund. (Libya and the IRA). Are they saying this is possible right under the noses of SIS and the Police?

I would be more scared, if this "source" AKA "Private security consultant chopper who reads far too much Clancy" had said ' If 1 to 10 heavily armed men walked up and down Oxford Street cabbing at passers-by etc"

Military service is compulsory in a lot of countries, and some countries have fought wars. What this tool is saying, is that everyone who has ever fought a war in an African or Middle Eastern sh*thole , comes here, and is only waiting for the codephrase to launch bloody havoc and mayhem.

Unless the narrative is "look where Tony's Iraq policy has gotten us" rather than the more accurate "look what shite border controls, slavish adherence to Article 3 of the ECHR and a PC-ridden Asylum policy has gotten us."

PTP's point about procurement for this ghost army of 10,000 Jihadists is spot-on. Then again, the scenario Seadog paints ^ isn't exactly Tom Clancy-esque any more is it?

It is claimed that the attorney general is considering charges of treason against 3 people.

"Hmm, " he said as he scratched his chin, "yeah right." Mrs Bliar and her ambulance-chasing chums will be onto this one in seconds and it won't survive an appeal under ECHR even if a judge doesn't throw any such charges out.

This is more smoke and mirrors to make it appear HMG is doing something.

Omar Bakri Mohammed is one of three who may be prosecuted
Islamist radicals who express support for terrorism may face treason charges, the Attorney General's Office has said.
Lord Goldsmith and the Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald have discussed action against three individuals, a spokeswoman said.

The Crown Prosecution Service's head of anti-terrorism will meet Scotland Yard officers in the next few days.

Reads like some journo. w"""""r's wet dream/nightmare. I don't doubt that there are other cells of terrorists read and willing to kill and die for their cause. But thousands? I doubt it. I'd be surprised if there were more than a hundred hardcore - willing to die as long as they take real people with them - terrorists in this country. Plus a few hundred others who will provide logistics, safehouses, intel. and recon. of targets etc.
I'm not downplaying the threat. A small group of utterly ruthless, commited terrorists can cause damage out of all proportion to it's size. But thousands of terrorists? Full-scale insurgancy in the UK? I smell s"""e.